12 May, 2020

Introduction

South Korea during COVID-19

South Korea is a one of the world’s most densely populated countries with a population of 51.64 million people.

The first case of COVID-19 in South Korea was confirmed on the 20th of January 2020.

Since then there has only been 256 deaths caused by COVID-19.

(Insert one of our graphs showing no of cases?)

Research questions

  • What measures taken by the South Korean government have been effective to contain the outbreak?

Materials and methods

COVID-19 dataset from kaggle

COVID-19 dataset from kaggle

Workflow and Structure of the project

Data cleaning

  • Get rid of unnecessary data

Data augmenting

  • Join tibbles
  • Create new variables

Four main data frames were created regarding:

  • patient
  • case
  • city
  • time

Results

PCA

PCA - variance

Correlation matrix

City clustering

Case fatility rate

using nest() {.smaller}

Transmission

Superspreaders

Search trend

Conclusion and discussion